A newly nominated director and a flurry of recent actions have some concerned that the administration is weaponizing the agency.

President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress are weighing vast changes to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, seeking to limit the powers and funding of a federal watchdog agency ...

Republicans are unlikely to abolish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but they will drastically rework its rules and activities. By Emily Flitter and Madeleine Ngo See more of our coverage in ...

Brian Johnson, President Trump’s pick for director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is testifying Thursday ...

The billionaire Elon Musk and the California venture capitalist Marc Andreessen have started a debate about the role of government that we should be having — but it might not go the way they would ...

NEW YORK — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Congress established to monitor credit card companies, mortgage providers, debt collectors and other segments of the consumer finance ...

Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's newly installed head of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, instructed staff on Saturday evening to suspend all activities including the supervision ...

Did you know that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) does not accept complaints against itself? That is what I was told when I tried to make such a complaint, right before being directed ...

The C.F.P.B. had kept a close eye on mortgage lenders. But with the bureau hobbled, consumers should take several steps, starting with shopping for the best mortgage rates. By Ann Carrns House prices ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the latest government agency potentially on President Donald Trump’s chopping block. Not only did Trump fire Rohit Chopra, who headed the independent agency ...